Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Genre or still-life pictures, including all subjects of a trivial, coarse, or common kind: so called in contempt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.
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- noun art The
painting , or literary description, ofmean orsordid things; especiallystill-life orgenre painting.
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The artists of this period were under the necessity of attracting attention by novelty and variety; thus rhyparography, and the lower classes of art, attained the ascendency, and became the characteristic styles of the period.
pavonine commented on the word rhyparography
painting or description of mean or sordid things; still-life or genre painting.
November 28, 2007
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July 9, 2014